Content Resources for Teachers

About the Service

Lancashire County Council Education Digital Services offers schools access to a range of online interactive educational classroom resources, as part of schools' subscription to our Broadband and Online Services Bundle.

These services support and enhance teaching and learning by providing access to national resources and downloads aligned to the curriculum. We also offer a range of discounted subscription services from Discovery Education, including Discovery Education Espresso, Coding and Health and Relationships.

What are the benefits?

The service provides the following:

Content that has been selected as suitable for school-aged pupils.
Resources to aid teachers' lesson planning.
Help for teachers to search for and create their own content.
Add additional value to your school's investment in ICT technology.

What's Included?

Service Features

Your broadband bundle provides inclusive access to the following fantastic content services:

Resource	Description
British Pathé http://www.britishpathe.com/	Lancashire County Council Education Digital Services have negotiated access to British Pathé for our broadband connected customers. Free access within school to the internationally acclaimed British Pathé Archive, widely used by TV and Film. Connected schools are able to download and use high quality clips from the online Archive (please see licence information below). Includes over 90,000 video clips and stills covering a vast array of national and regional historical news and events including WW1, WW2, weather events, Everest, Churchill, royalty and the weird and wonderful! This service is only accessible for schools purchasing our Broadband and Online Service option, and only gives the ability to download free resources when staff and pupils are connected via your school's broadband connection. This archive is of interest to all schools as it has wide ranging historical interest suitable for cross-curricular activities. It would also be particularly popular with History/RE departments.

For schools connected to our broadband service, as a NEN (National Education Network) connected school, you also benefit from resources created by other regions around the UK. Some of these resources are restricted to schools who purchase one of our Broadband and Online Services Bundles and are not available outside school:

Resource	Description
The NEN – National Education Network Resources https://www.nen.gov.uk/resource/	One of the membership benefits of NEN is the access to high quality teaching and learning resources. Some examples of the excellent resources include: The Cold War (KS3 and KS4) Polar Exploration (KS2, KS3 and KS4) Search and Rescue (KS2, KS3 and KS4) Everyone Matters (KS4) The Tudors in London (KS2) The M Room World War II Listening Sites (KS3 and KS4) All have been developed and/or funded by members of NEN and in some cases charities or key partner organisations have been involved. Also available in the resources section of the NEN website are useful links for school staff/leaders, to resources from a range of organisations, covering issues such as online safety, bullying, citizenship and pupil wellbeing. Many resources are open access for anyone to use. Others, marked ‘NEN only’, are only licensed for schools that are with a local authority that is a member of the "NEN - the Education Network". These resources must be accessed from within your school network to validate the license.